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Re:Company Scans Your Books For a Dollar – Ship ‘Em In, Get ... by klinquist on Thursday August 18, 2011 @02:11PM (#2900337)
Do they OCR before converting to PDF? Having a PDF that is just a 'picture' isn't very helpful (can't search for text, change text size, etc).
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Re:Company Scans Your Books For a Dollar – Ship ‘Em In, Get ... by markprice on Thursday August 18, 2011 @02:22PM (#2900392)
yes, the pricing page on their site says OCR is included free.
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Re:Company Scans Your Books For a Dollar – Ship ‘Em In, Get ... by pyre on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:15PM (#2901112)
That depends though. Isn't there a way for the PDF page to be an image, but for OCR to produce an index of keywords, so that you are viewing the image, but the index is searchable? This doesn't solve the increase/decrease text size issue (though it does solve the searching issue).
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Re:Company Scans Your Books For a Dollar – Ship ‘Em In, Get ... by wmf on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:52PM (#2901279)
Yes, searchable PDF puts the OCRed text behind the image so that it's not visible but is still searchable.
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